Am Wed, 4. Jul 2012, 00:47:06 +0200 schrieb Axel Beckert: > since about a day or such my Sid DomU (Xen virtual machine) gets > extremely sluggish as soon as I start "aptitude -u". It even throws > kernel messages like this several times during the (very slow) package > update: > > Message from syslogd@kiva6 at Jul 4 00:02:00 ... > kernel:[7736331.176014] BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 23s! > [ksoftirqd/0:3] > > aptitude (0.6.8) consumes 100% cpu according to htop and so do other > processes (irssi, screen, htop itself, ksoftirqd/0 and a few more), > load goes up to 4 to 7 and everything is very laggy. But as soon as > suspend aptitude with Ctrl-Z or stop it with Ctrl-C, everything is > fine again immediately.
Maybe this is due to the recent leap second problem[1]. Try setting the date
("date -s now") or rebooting.
[1]
http://serverfault.com/questions/403732/anyone-else-experiencing-high-rates-of-linux-server-crashes-during-a-leap-second
Summary as far as I understand the problem: Leap second code in the kernel was
buggy in such a way that two kernel clocks will go out-of-sync by one second
when a leap second occurs. If any program sets a timer for unter one second,
the timer will immediately fire. Since timers may fire early for various
reasons, many programs will check for this and restart the timer, resulting in
a busy wait. Setting the time with "date -s" brings the in-kernel clocks back
into sync.
Bye,
Jö.
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